Lithonica
10-10-2009, 08:23 PM
For designers, and other graphic capable people, to use your software to build a truly custom book, I can only think of one way, and want to know if what I am thinking is correct: I think that I should build all my book's pages in Adobe Creative Suite 4 - specifically Photoshop CS4 and Fireworks CS4 one page or spread at a time and save them as jpgs. And, therefore, the only way I can think of having complete control over the design on a given MyPublisher's Classic book's page is to use the MyPublisher full page layout exclusively dropping in my images and text to that sized template I make in CS4 Photoshop/fireworks, and then color my layouts backgrounds via RGB and output everything as a 300dpi jpg one page (layout) at a time. Correct? If so, will text on my 300dpi .jpg's that are correctly sized (thus not employing your Autofit) look SHARP?
Further, if my premise is correct - then, to get the best from each image and thus not invoke MyPublisher's Autofit, I will need to know the exact pixel (or inches) sizes for each of the following:
> Jacket
> Jacket spread (if possible)
> A page
> A 2 page spread (if possible)
I have seen the templated-answer that a senior staffer provides when someone asks questions nearly like this. But, that template does not answer all these questions. Moreover, I have more than once seen conflicting answers to the same questions from senior staffers. Example, in your senior staffer's newest size info template, it notes that the jacket for a Classic book is 3225x2550 - which equals 10.75"x8.5" which would be wrong if the book is truly 11.25" x 8.75". And in another posting by a staffer I found that the jacket art is to be 3324x2574 pixels. Again this answer would be wrong if the book is truly 11.25" x 8.75." And, thus in both staffer's info/answer templates, the Autofit used by the software would compensate at the expense of quality.
Please, I need the exact raw sizes + the exact bleed sizes (and note if I need crop marks) for the book parts asked for above, and for all MyPublisher's stock image layouts. Because - Unfortunately, to tell potential clients that 1/8" to 1/4" is the bleed and/or to provide inexact sizes for objects, is to kill the quality as Autofit will be employed to reduce or increase the image accordingly. Please, I require (and anyone looking for complete graphic control requires) this info before I can make several books for a client.
Thank you in advance!
- Mitchell
Further, if my premise is correct - then, to get the best from each image and thus not invoke MyPublisher's Autofit, I will need to know the exact pixel (or inches) sizes for each of the following:
> Jacket
> Jacket spread (if possible)
> A page
> A 2 page spread (if possible)
I have seen the templated-answer that a senior staffer provides when someone asks questions nearly like this. But, that template does not answer all these questions. Moreover, I have more than once seen conflicting answers to the same questions from senior staffers. Example, in your senior staffer's newest size info template, it notes that the jacket for a Classic book is 3225x2550 - which equals 10.75"x8.5" which would be wrong if the book is truly 11.25" x 8.75". And in another posting by a staffer I found that the jacket art is to be 3324x2574 pixels. Again this answer would be wrong if the book is truly 11.25" x 8.75." And, thus in both staffer's info/answer templates, the Autofit used by the software would compensate at the expense of quality.
Please, I need the exact raw sizes + the exact bleed sizes (and note if I need crop marks) for the book parts asked for above, and for all MyPublisher's stock image layouts. Because - Unfortunately, to tell potential clients that 1/8" to 1/4" is the bleed and/or to provide inexact sizes for objects, is to kill the quality as Autofit will be employed to reduce or increase the image accordingly. Please, I require (and anyone looking for complete graphic control requires) this info before I can make several books for a client.
Thank you in advance!
- Mitchell